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1/1/1940 No Cabinet

1/2/1940 11:00am [Cab.?] 4:30pm DNC 6:30pm Col Menzies Dinner Admiralty House.

1/3/1940 4.00pm Shipping Meeting 5:00pm Military Coordination 7:45pm Colonel Gretton

1/6/1940 3 Ministers [[note: cannot tell whether 3 refers to time or number of ministers who attended]]

1/7/1940 No Cabinet

1/8/1940 3 Ministers

1/9/1940 3 Ministers

1/10/1940 11:00am P.M. [[note: P.M. could refer to British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain]] 4:30pm Dentist 5:30pm N C [Misty?]

1/11/1940 4:30pm Desmond Flower 5:00pm Admiral Holland 5:10pm Admiral Vivian

1/12/1940 11:15pm Sir Athol Anderson 1:30pm Gen Spears lunch Admty House 4:30pm Col ERDELHUN 5:00pm MILITARY COORDINATION 6:30pm Air Min meeting in Board Room 8:00pm Anderson

1/13/1940 FIRST LORD ON DUTY CABINET

1/14/1940 5:00pm Sir Horace Wilson.

1/15/1940 1:00pm Lunch (Mr Amery) 11:30pm. Sir J. Reith 3:00pm Cabinet. 5:00pm (?) Danish Naval Attache[acute] 5.30 Military Coordination. Mrs Sandys to dine [[note: Mrs. Sandys could refer to WSC's daughter Diana Churchill Sandys]] 9:30pm 10:00 R.M.

1/16/1940 1:30pm Lunch with French Ambassador 5:00pm Argentine Naval Attache [[srike]] 5:30pm Scapa Conference . Debate 5:30pm Military Co-ordination. H of C. [[note: H of C. could refer to the British House of Commons, London, UK]] [[pencil underwriting]] Mrs. Sandys to dine[[/pencil underwriting]] [[note: Mrs. Sandys could refer to WSC's daughter Diana Churchill Sandys]]

1/17/1940 1:15pm Lunch to French Journalists 4:30pm Roumanian Minister 5:00pm Military Coordination 6:30pm No. 10 Meeting

1/18/1940 10:00am . Dr. Revery 4:30pm Mr. Crozier (Manchester Guardian) [[note: Manchester Guardian was a newspaper]] 5:00pm Yugoslav Minister 5:15pm Roumanian Minister 5:30pm Scapa Conference Catherine DNC (Cultivator) Dinner to Dautry 6:30pm Shipbuilding Meeting

1/19/1940 1:30pm Mr Oliver & Lady Maureen Stanley to lunch and Mr Eden 4:30pm Sir E. Grigg 5:00pm Scapa Conference 6:40pm 7:00pmV A. [two words illegible] [[/strikeout]] dinner? Military Coordination Sir K Wood and Lord B

1/20/1940 12:00noon Cabinet 1:00pm Mr. Deakin to lunch, & Sir Roger Keyes 9:15pm Broadcast

1/21/1940 10:30am Hairdresser 11:00am Sir Andrew Duncan 4:30pm Mr. Snedden (Shipbuilding Federation)

1/22/1940 10:00am Sir [J. Lidgas?] illegible 5:00pm Mr Harris (Lloyds Bank) Mr. Snedden (Shipbuilding Federation) 6:30pm Robb (Concrete ships) 7:00pm [Catronime?] 10 U.P Meeting

1/23/1940 Also Mons. Masaryk, Sir Edward Marsh & Miss [[1 word illegible]]Mrs. Laughton-Matthews to Lunch (Z) [[note: (Z) could also be the number 2]] 4:30pm Sir P Harris 5:00pm. A.G.R.M. 5.30pm Military Coordination

1/24/1940 Lord & Lady Cranborne to lunch 4:00pm Lord Privy Seal's Committee. 10:00am. Mr Harris (Bank) 1922 COMMITTEE. (SPEECH) H of C. 5:10pm [[Note: this line is circled in red ]]

1/25/1940 Secretary, Parly Secy, Mrs Shakespeare, Prof L to Lunch [[note: Prof. L could refer to Frederick Lindemann, scientific adviser to the British government and close associate of WSC.]] 4:30pm Dentist 5:45pm New Construction Meeting

1/26/1940 Lunch with Stanleys 4:30pm Major Jefferis & Cor. Varley 6:00pm Magnetic Mine

1/27/1940 2:30pm Speak Manchester

1/28/1940 Lunch Mr Bracken [[note: Mr. Bracken is Brendan Bracken]] 5:30pm Mr Bullock

1/29/1940 4:30pm Admiral Brivonesi (Italian N.A. on departure) [[note: N.A. could be abbreviation for naval attache]] 5:00pm Sir [two words illegible] 6:15pm Dinner [three words illegible]

1/30/1940 8:00pm. D [rest of word illegible]] Army.

1/31/1940 1:30pm Lunch Yugoslav Minister 5:00pm? Questions H of C 6:00pm Magnetic Mine 7:15pm [three words illegible] 10:00pm U.P. Meeting

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